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What to do with all the images you create in Blender 3d
Blender 3d is a great program that gives you all the necessary tools to create great images. That in itself is pretty cool. You can amuse yourself for years doing just that (and I have!). But eventually you might just end up asking yourself, "Now what? I have hundreds of images. I wonder if I can do something with them, besides fill up my computer hard drive."
The answer is yes!
I have two great passions. Blender 3d and crafting. Both of which let me make great gifts for loved ones that I can customize to any occasion.
Although that time of year is fast approaching once again, gift giving is something that can and does happen all year round. That being the case, I'm going to share some ideas on a few fun and unique gift ideas.
You wouldn't think that a 3d program would overly lend itself to crafting, but you would be surprised at how often I have used it for just that.
With a little imagination and a few additional supplies, your blender images can be turned into any number of thoughtful and unique gifts. Gifts that are sure to be appreciated by your loved ones, having of course been personally made by you, just for them.
The answer is yes!
I have two great passions. Blender 3d and crafting. Both of which let me make great gifts for loved ones that I can customize to any occasion.
Although that time of year is fast approaching once again, gift giving is something that can and does happen all year round. That being the case, I'm going to share some ideas on a few fun and unique gift ideas.
You wouldn't think that a 3d program would overly lend itself to crafting, but you would be surprised at how often I have used it for just that.
With a little imagination and a few additional supplies, your blender images can be turned into any number of thoughtful and unique gifts. Gifts that are sure to be appreciated by your loved ones, having of course been personally made by you, just for them.
More information About Blender 3d
This lens isn't about Blender 3d, in and of itself. It is about what you can do with images you have already created with Blender 3d.If you were looking for Blender 3d specific information, please check out my list of Blender 3d related lenses.
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Greeting Cards
Personalized greeting cards are as much fun to create as receive. And beieve it or not, it is fairly easy and painless to create memorable greeting cards with your own images.Some ideas:
· Have them printed with your image at your local photo developing center
· Most Kodak photo machines let you put your image on a greeting card
· Print out your own cards on a variety of available greeting card sizes and papers
· Go full out, create your own cards using any number of paper crafting/ scrapbooking techniques.
I often create my image in Blender and then go down to my craft room and use a variety of scrapbooking/papercrafting tools and techniques to create holiday greeting cards.
Print on demand photo gifts
There are a number of print on demand sites, such asCafePress, Zazzle, etc., that let you unload an image and have it printed on a wide variety of objects for your own use or to give as gifts.
Some examples are: t-shirts, mugs, bags, hats, tiles, posters etc.
This can be a fun way to showcase your art.
Most local photo developing centers (you can generally find one in just about any local store) now offer a small selection of photo items, greeting cards and poster sized printouts.
Photo Gift examples available from CafePress
Frame it!
A quick and easy way to give away an amazing image, that you have worked so hard on, is to frame it. Frames can be purchased fairly inexpensively these days. Or you can go all out and buy an exceptional frame depending on your budget.If your home printer doesn't printout nice "photo" quality images, you can save your image to a memory card, USB drive, cd, or dvd and take it to any local store that has a Kodak photo machine. The Kodak photo machine will let you print your image in several different sizes, generally for a fairly low cost.
Now all you need to do is put your photo in the frame, wrap it and give it.
Over the last eight years, I have given a number of framed images away as gifts. The fun part is that I can create an image that is appropriate to any occasion or images that are special to the specific recipient. (i.e. my mom loves owls)
An image I created in Blender 3d for Christmas cards.
Iron It!
There are a wide variety of iron-on products available that can be ran through an ink jet printer. Once the ink is dry you then iron it on to the fabric item of your choice.Here are a few ideas:
· t-shirts
· hats
· tote bags
· fabric squares for quilts
Ironing-on images is fairly inexpensive and very easy. Over the years I have created numerous t-shirts and tote bags. (You can never have too many tote bags). I have even ironed images on small tote bags and used them as gift bags.
Another fun iron on project is mouse pads. You can buy mouse pad kits, but generally I just buy the really cheap mouse pads (they generally are one colored or have a very small store logo on them) and iron on the image I want.
And for the totally adventurous, try ironing images onto wood. Don't look at me like that, it really worked. I printed my image onto an iron-on canvas sheet. I picked up a simple wooden square plaque from a local craft store and painted the edges. Once the ink and paint dried, I trimmed the image to the correct size and just ironed it onto the wooden square.
Seeing as how it worked on the plaque, I imagine that it would work on any flat wooden object.
Some ideas:
· boxes
· trays
· wooden cubes (you could iron a different image on each side)
· foot stools
· etc.
Iron On Supplies
Great Ideas for Creating your own gifts
Shrinky Dinks
Remember that fun kids craft where you colored on special sheets of plastic then baked it in the oven and watched it shrink. Well it has become very popular with crafters, so popular in fact that there is now a version that goes through your ink jet printer. Which of course is an excellent thing for the inspired crafter.
Print out an image of choice onto the Shrinky Dink plastic sheet. Let it dry thoroughly and then trim around the image and bake.
Some things to remember with Shrinky Dinks:
Final shrunk image will be about 1/3 of the original size, so plan your original image appropriately.
If you want a hole in the final object (to hang it from), make sure to punch it BEFORE you bake.
Some Ideas:
Print out an image of choice onto the Shrinky Dink plastic sheet. Let it dry thoroughly and then trim around the image and bake.
Some things to remember with Shrinky Dinks:
Final shrunk image will be about 1/3 of the original size, so plan your original image appropriately.
If you want a hole in the final object (to hang it from), make sure to punch it BEFORE you bake.
Some Ideas:
Xmas ornaments
Jewelry
gift tags
window ornaments (it kind of looks like stained glass)
Shrinky Dink supplies
Thanks for letting me share my ideas with you
I hope you enjoyed my gift ideas and that it gave you some ideas of your own. In my opinion, there is nothing more appreciated than a handmade gift. It shows that you thought enough about the person to spend the time and effort required to make the gift.
I personally use Blender 3d to create my images, but any and all of the ideas here can be used with any image or photo you like.
AslanBooks wrote...
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Posted January 26, 2009
dreamsgate wrote...
Depending on if I can find time, yesI would like to design another one.
Posted November 21, 2008
ChristiannaGarrett-Martin wrote...
The image for your Christmas cards is stunning! Such sharp colours,
Great Lens! 5 stars*****
Christianna
Posted November 19, 2008
aquariann wrote...
Great ideas and lens. Your Christmas card from last year is awesome!! Will you be designing another this year?
Posted November 18, 2008
by dreamsgate
I am the Managing Editor of Blenderart Magazine and a long time user of Blender.
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